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==Navigational exercise==

==Navigational exercise==

Just over twelve hours earlier Destroyer Squadron Eleven left [[San Francisco Bay]] and formed up for a morning of combat maneuvers. They were returning home after a escorting Battle Division 4 from Puget Sound to [[San Francisco]]. DesRon 11 comprised the five ships of Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 33, with ''Delphy'' (DD-261) out front, followed by ''S.P. Lee'' (DD-310), ''Young'' (DD-312), ''Woodbury'' (DD-309) and ''Nicholas'' (DD-311); six ships from DesDiv 31, with ''Farragut'' (DD-300) followed by ''Fuller'' (DD-297), ''Percival'' (DD-298), ''Somers'' (DD-301), ''Chauncey'' (DD-296) and ''Kennedy'' (DD-306); and three ships from DesDiv 32, ''Paul Hamilton'' (DD-307), ''Stoddert'' (DD-302) and ''Thompson'' (DD-305). The warships conducted tactical and gunnery exercises en route, including a competitive speed run of 20 knots. Later in the day, as weather worsened, the ships formed column on the squadron leader Delphy.

Just over twelve hours earlier Destroyer Squadron Eleven left [[San Francisco Bay]] and formed up for a morning of combat maneuvers. They were returning home after escorting Battle Division 4 from Puget Sound to [[San Francisco]]. DesRon 11 comprised the five ships of Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 33, with ''Delphy'' (DD-261) out front, followed by ''S.P. Lee'' (DD-310), ''Young'' (DD-312), ''Woodbury'' (DD-309) and ''Nicholas'' (DD-311); six ships from DesDiv 31, with ''Farragut'' (DD-300) followed by ''Fuller'' (DD-297), ''Percival'' (DD-298), ''Somers'' (DD-301), ''Chauncey'' (DD-296) and ''Kennedy'' (DD-306); and three ships from DesDiv 32, ''Paul Hamilton'' (DD-307), ''Stoddert'' (DD-302) and ''Thompson'' (DD-305). The warships conducted tactical and gunnery exercises en route, including a competitive speed run of 20 knots. Later in the day, as weather worsened, the ships formed column on the squadron leader Delphy.

Poor visibility ensured that squadron commander Captain Edward H. Watson and two other experienced navigators on board ''Delphy'' had to work largely by the time-honored, if imprecise, technique of dead reckoning. Soundings could not be taken at twenty knots, but they checked their chart work against bearings obtained from the radio direction finding (RDF) station at Point Arguello, a few miles south of Honda. At the time they expected to turn into the Channel, the Point Arguello station reported they were still to the northward. However, RDF was still new and not completely trusted, so this information was discounted, and DesRon 11 was ordered to turn eastward, with each ship following ''Delphy''.

Poor visibility ensured that squadron commander Captain Edward H. Watson and two other experienced navigators on board ''Delphy'' had to work largely by the time-honored, if imprecise, technique of dead reckoning. Soundings could not be taken at twenty knots, but they checked their chart work against bearings obtained from the radio direction finding (RDF) station at Point Arguello, a few miles south of Honda. At the time they expected to turn into the Channel, the Point Arguello station reported they were still to the northward. However, RDF was still new and not completely trusted, so this information was discounted, and DesRon 11 was ordered to turn eastward, with each ship following ''Delphy''.